FC5T3: Duplicate packages installed

Jesse Keating jkeating at j2solutions.net
Sun Feb 26 21:40:50 UTC 2006


On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 15:36 -0600, Jonathan Berry wrote:
> 
> Why is this not the default queryformat for x86_64?  It would cut down
> on a lot of confusion and noise for those new to the x86_64 platform. 
> And I do not see what it would hurt to make it default in all cases if
> it complicates things to make it default for only x86_64.  It's fairly
> simple to add this to your .rpmmacros, but the people who will know to
> do this will already know about the dual-arch stuff. 

Because changing the expected output of rpm -q is a bad bad thing.
Don't do that.  Of course people shouldn't be screen scraping the output
or relying on it w/out doing their own --qf for ensured stability,
people do anyway, and we'd rather not break all their scripts.

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